Chapter Eighteen

My alarm woke me up at six, but I decided to have an extra hour in bed, it was the last weekend before Nationals. It went off an hour later and I got up and began to get ready for the day, I put on a simple pink dress, and then went and got Darcy up. I dressed her in a pair of denim shorts, and a yellow T-shirt. She looked gorgeous as always, she really was going to be a stunner when she was older. "Morning girls," said Noah, he was up as he had to be at school for eight. I thought it was stupid having football practice on a Saturday, but then Ken Tanaka is not exactly normal anyway.

I ate breakfast quietly and then sat with Darcy watching morning cartoons. The doorbell rang at half nine and I answered it to be greeted by the girls and Kurt. "Hey guys," I said. "Come on in,"
"Hey Rach," said Mercedes. "Your place is nice," I realised that she and Kurt hadn't been here before.
"Thank you," I said. "Would any of you like a drink before we go,"
"We're good thanks Rach," said Quinn. "Hey Darcy,"
"Quinn, San, Brit," she said happily. "And Tina and Mercy and Beyonce,"
"Sweetie his real name is Kurt," I said giggling.
"But daddy calls him that," she said.

"I know," I said.
"She is so like him, it's untrue," said Mercedes.
"Oh she's like Rach too," said Quinn. "In a good way,"
"Okay let's get going shall we," I said. "Darcy is in the front with me and Quinn, the rest of you can arrange yourselves in the back seats," I got Darcy into her car seat and then put on the radio, some rock band blasted through the stereo. "Can I put a CD on mommy," said Darcy.
"What would you like," I said.
"This one," she opened the glove box and dug out a nursery rhyme CD. "Does anyone have any objections,"

"No," said Quinn. "Let's return to our youth,"
"Okay," I said. I started the engine and we set off, the first song being wheels on the bus. After singing our way through that and many others we arrived at the shopping mall in the centre of Lima. We spent hours looking in the shops, and then finally found what we were looking for. I found a lilac Winnie the Pooh nightdress. The girls also found various pyjama sets. "Santana I never thought you'd go for High School Musical," I said.
"Well my little sister asked me to watch it with her once, and I actually saw similarities between it and our school," she said.

"I see your point," I said. "Okay so have we got everything or do we need anything else,"
"I think that's everything," said San. We arrived back at home half an hour later to find the guys in the house playing X-box shouting and swearing loudly. I cleared my throat. "Not that I mind what you're saying but we do have a child present," I said. "A child who will get into trouble if she say's things like that at playgroup,"
"Sorry babe," said Noah. "How was your day,"
"It was really good actually we found our outfits, which was great," I said. "How about you,"
"Was pretty cool," he said.

"Mommy, I'm hungry," said Darcy.
"Is anyone else hungry," I said. They all nodded, "Okay I'll make a salad is that okay,"
"Sure," they all agreed.
"I'll help you," said Noah. We chopped and sliced various vegetation and then put them all into a huge dish and added a homemade dressing. For Darcy, I put chicken breast onto a sandwich and sliced it into little triangles.

"Here you go sweetie," I said.
"Thank you mommy," she said. We ate lunch talking and laughing, I was really looking forward to Nationals now. I had a really good feeling about it, but even if we didn't win I knew that I had all my friends here with me, and really that was all I needed.